Small Po-taaaaa-toes! My 09/11 TR & Pics from 02/12!

[OhioDisneyLover]

So as I stated before, I didn't take notes this trip so I am relying mostly on my pictures to remind me of what we did next.

After lunch I recall doing a bit of browsing and then making our way to the front of the park. We (well, mostly me I think) wanted to see the parade. I am a parade nut. Like so bad that I get sad when I miss them. It's pathetic.

We decided to walk past CP and see if we could find a spot over that way. I took a couple of pictures on the way.

Here is one of Joe and some random dude.

No clue why I took this one.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

I hit the dang button too soon.............

Here are some other pics I took while we made our way over.

We finally made it over to our spot and there were people everywhere. We were standing in the taped off area so theoretically, no one should have been in front of us....so what the heck is this dude doing?

Check out the chicky in the glasses across the street. She was having herself a good ol time! Woot!

We met a super cast member while we were waiting. Her name was Bethany. She was awesome. I think she liked Dave's accent. She called him "King David." Bethany kept trying to get people to move out of the dang way. It is amazing to me how many people just didn't budge or looked at her like she was crazy. People can be stupid sometimes. We chatted away with Bethany when she wasn't shooing people out of the way. I think she was my favorite CM of the trip. Super nice person and she was so funny. I don't have a picture of her as she disappeared into Disney-air when we thought to take a picture.

After a few minutes, the parade finally started. Man, it was a scorching hot that day and I couldn't help but feel bad for all of the characters. They had to be melting.

Ohhh Bethanyyyyyyyyyyyy, get this chicky out of the dang way!!

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

After the parade I recall doing some browsing in the shops as we made our way to the front of the park. We were going to go back to POFQ for a little break before dinner. We HAD (notice I said HAD) ressies that evening at the Plaza.

Next up, what the heck?...........

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

We arrived back at POFQ and guess what we saw? Our door had been left open by Mousekeeping all dang day!

I nearly fainted. Joe went to put his key in the door and noticed that the latch was left so that the door propped open. OMG, I was freaking out to say the least.

We were on the ground floor facing the courtyard in a high traffic area. Anyone could have gone into our room. I was fuming.

I called Housekeeping and talked to the supervisor. She was nice and all but had nothing to really offer except that we'd get VIP cleaning for the rest of our trip. What the hell is that?

I was so dang mad that I went to the front desk and wanted to speak to the hotel manager. After what felt like 20 minutes, the manager came out. He said that he wanted to get the facts from housekeeping before he came out to talk to us. Really dude? He said that same thing...that we would get whatever this VIP housekeeping was for the rest of our trip. I was not happy. I don't know what I wanted from him actually, I was too upset to think. I told him that I had camera equipment, medications and personal stuff (ipod, kindle, tablet, etc) in my room and not everything fit into the safe so some stuff was sitting out. HIs solution was that I use a safe deposit box. Dude, like I am gonna come here every time I need something and stand in line and wait to get to it....so much park time lost that way! Ugh, I was fuming. He said that they'd move us but seriously, why should we have to pack, leave a room that we loved....area was perfect....just because Mousekeeping didn't know how to lock the dang door?

We had an ADR back at the Plaza but we decided not to keep it. I was too upset. I couldn't think straight. The last thing on my mind was food and honestly, I didn't know if I even wanted to leave the resort.

I sent Jenn, Stef and Mary a text and told them all what happened. We were to meet Stef and Dave back at MK that evening but instead we met them for drinks at the Tambu Lounge. That was fun. Stef showed me some of her wedding pictures while we had drinks. Stef and Dave had an ADR that night at MK so we said our good byes and Joe and I headed back to the resort.

Instead of going directly back to POFQ, we made a short stop at DTD and did some additional shopping. After that, back to the resort we went.

I can honestly say that I was mentally exhausted from the dealings with mousekeeping and ready to call it a night.

As an aside, I wrote a letter to Disney once we got home.

Next up..........Breakfast with Mary and Chuck, meet up with Stef and Dave and MNSSHP with Jenn and her family! Woot! A day filled with Disers~

 

[annmarieda]

As always, i love your pictures!

I had never actually noticed that the characters are tethered on the floats. It makes sense, but

I can't believe mousekeeping did that. Oh wait, yes I can. When we stayed at POR, we had some serious troubles with mousekeeping. I complained and complained and nothing was ever done. It wasn't until the hairdryer actually caught on fire that mousekeeping even started to come into our room (they had not been making our beds...giving us towels...etc.) I am dying to know what VIP means!!

 

[Queenofallthings]

I have no idea what happened but I KNOW I subscribed to your TR but today I realized I hadn't seen anything in a while so I went on a hunt for it...and sure enough, I obviously didn't....I have to run out, but I'll be back to read and catch up later!!!

 

[not_Joanna_eggs]

Oh my. i think my head would have spun around Linda Blair style. I hate when hotels screw up and then try to tell you that you are the one in the wrong. So infuriating! We had an incident were a pacifier ended up on our bed. We have no children, and DH kicked his binky habit a few months before. I was so mad, and they basically told me it wasn't a big deal. I was like "you sleep with someone else's baby's germs then"

And seriously what is VIP cleaning? That makes now sense and kind of infers that the rest of us get "lowly peasant" cleaning where they just look at your mess and don't do anything about it Ugh. I'm mad for you!

Wow... that was a crazy person rant. Sorry!

Hopefully it didn't put too much of a damper on the rest of your trip.

Love your parade pictures!

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

As always, i love your pictures!

I had never actually noticed that the characters are tethered on the floats. It makes sense, but

I can't believe mousekeeping did that. Oh wait, yes I can. When we stayed at POR, we had some serious troubles with mousekeeping. I complained and complained and nothing was ever done. It wasn't until the hairdryer actually caught on fire that mousekeeping even started to come into our room (they had not been making our beds...giving us towels...etc.) I am dying to know what VIP means!!

Thanks.

Holy crap, the hairdryer caught on fire?! That would have freaked me out, big time.

I have no idea what happened but I KNOW I subscribed to your TR but today I realized I hadn't seen anything in a while so I went on a hunt for it...and sure enough, I obviously didn't....I have to run out, but I'll be back to read and catch up later!!!

Hiya

I'm glad that you found me again.

Oh my. i think my head would have spun around Linda Blair style. I hate when hotels screw up and then try to tell you that you are the one in the wrong. So infuriating! We had an incident were a pacifier ended up on our bed. We have no children, and DH kicked his binky habit a few months before. I was so mad, and they basically told me it wasn't a big deal. I was like "you sleep with someone else's baby's germs then"

And seriously what is VIP cleaning? That makes now sense and kind of infers that the rest of us get "lowly peasant" cleaning where they just look at your mess and don't do anything about it Ugh. I'm mad for you!

Wow... that was a crazy person rant. Sorry!

Hopefully it didn't put too much of a damper on the rest of your trip.

Love your parade pictures!

It was so infuriating, especially when I had the chat with the manager. Really dude? You're going to tell me that if I couldn't lock up all my stuff that I should get a lock box? I can't imagine every time I wanted to carry a different lens that I'd have to plan out time to stand in line to go and get it from the front desk.

And trust me, this VIP cleaning was ridiculous. I still to this day have no clue what they did differently. And it was just Joe and I and all we really needed were towels because I practically make the dang bed before we leave the room anyway.

OMG, I laughed out loud about your DH kicking his binky habit a few months before.

 

[annmarieda]

Thanks.

Holy crap, the hairdryer caught on fire?! That would have freaked me out, big time.

Yup. It was really in need of replacing. It rattle and made horrible noices each time I turned it on. Then on the last day before it HAD to be replaced, I was in the middle of using it when dh looks at me and sayd" um...the hair dryer is on fire" Thankfully not shooting sparks or flames..but kinda smoldering inside...with an actual flame. Lots of smoke coming from it too. I quickly shut it off. It totally freaked me out. It was, however the LAST straw and I marched down to the front desk and made a stink. Hmm... we got extra toiletries brought to us but that was about it. Oh...and a brand spanking new hair dryer.

 

[TanzUnited99]

Great TR so far! I love how you met with so many friends from these boards.

Yay on going to MK on your arrival day - I loved the Halloween decorations.

We dined at Kona Cafe for dinner as well but have never tried it for breakfast. Which did you prefer? Okay I read on and see your breakfast review as well. It looks so yummy!

Great pics of Hallowishes and you are right in that is a great way to end the first night

Great pick a pearl and Epcot pics. I love the cake and am so happy you ordered one.

Sounds like you all had a great shopping day - can't wait to hear more details on Stefy's TR.

Oh no on your room being left open all day

All caught up and looking forward to more

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Yup. It was really in need of replacing. It rattle and made horrible noices each time I turned it on. Then on the last day before it HAD to be replaced, I was in the middle of using it when dh looks at me and sayd" um...the hair dryer is on fire" Thankfully not shooting sparks or flames..but kinda smoldering inside...with an actual flame. Lots of smoke coming from it too. I quickly shut it off. It totally freaked me out. It was, however the LAST straw and I marched down to the front desk and made a stink. Hmm... we got extra toiletries brought to us but that was about it. Oh...and a brand spanking new hair dryer.

OMG, I would probably have dropped the dryer and started screaming.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Great TR so far! I love how you met with so many friends from these boards.

Yay on going to MK on your arrival day - I loved the Halloween decorations.

We dined at Kona Cafe for dinner as well but have never tried it for breakfast. Which did you prefer? Okay I read on and see your breakfast review as well. It looks so yummy!

Great pics of Hallowishes and you are right in that is a great way to end the first night

Great pick a pearl and Epcot pics. I love the cake and am so happy you ordered one.

Sounds like you all had a great shopping day - can't wait to hear more details on Stefy's TR.

Oh no on your room being left open all day

All caught up and looking forward to more

Hi Glad that you made it over!

So glad that we got to see Hallowishes from the beach of the Poly. I have no idea why we have never gone there before to see Wishes. Given the number of times that we have had a meal at the Poly, one would think that we would have thought about it before this trip.

I can't wait for Stef to start her TR.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

We started day 5 off with what else? Small Potatoes! Woot! That little show or whatever you want to call it is so dang funny. I am trying to get Joe to make the theme song my ring tone on my blackberry. Hee hee....

We had an early ADR for breakfast with Mary and Chuck at Olivia's. None of us had been there in the past so we thought we would give it a try.

Joe and I went over to CSR and picked them up so that we could drive over to OKW together.

No clue why, but we didn't take a picture of the 4 of us. I have no idea what we were thinking!

We made our way over to Olivia's for our 7:30 adr. We were early so we spent some time in their shop. I bought some jewelry while we were there and I know Mary got something as well.

Once Olivia's opened, we were seated pretty quickly...well, right away actually.

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I enjoyed my meal there. This is what I had.

Granted, my pancakes were no where near Kona good, but they were ok.

Joe had ths:

For some reason, I don't have pictures of what Chuck and Mary had but if I remember correctly, Mary had the pancakes.

We had our breakfast and the plan after that was to go to Epcot for the rest of the morning/earl afternoon.

I wish we had more time to roam about OKW as I have never been there before.

 

[KatMark]

Great parade pictures, Sophia. What is with people and standing on front of people already there. If it is a child, I have no problem. But when it is an overgrown adult idiot, I mind a LOT.

I remember you telling me about the room door being open all day. I would have been livid too and that manager was not very nice, and something else should have been offered.

 

[KatMark]

Sophia, glad you enjoyed Olivia's breakfast. We did lunch when we were there and it was very good. I am staying there again in Janaury and we are going to do breakfast on the day we head home.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

We made our way to Epcot. Joe parked in the handicap parking area. It was amazing how many people just stood there and didn't move while we were trying to park.

Mary and I went through bag check which took forever and three days. No clue why but the bag check lines this trip were insane. The guys waited for us on the other end.

We did a PP picture. Once I upload them all I will post them.

We rode SSE first. There wasn't a line so we figured why not!

Random picture while waiting in the queue.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

My pictures from SSE are craptastic! I'm chicken to turn on the flash since we are not suppose to.

After SSE we all needed a rest room break before heading over here.

I got photo bombed by Joe.

I love Soarin. Big time. Could ride it over and over and over again. We were lucky enough to be in the front which meant we didn't have to look at hanging feet. LOL. I so want to try and take pics one day on this ride. I know, it's a no no, but sheesh, I think it would be awesome.

After Soarin we made our way into WS to meet up with Stef and Dave. It was freaking HOT this morning.

We stopped to take flower pictures along the way.

We met up in Norway for a beverage and a snack. I'm sure that I had school bread but I didn't take a picture. In fact, stupid me didn't take any pictures of all of us!

After chatting for a bit, Joe and I headed back to our resort for a break before meeting Jenn for dinner and then MNSSHP.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Great parade pictures, Sophia. What is with people and standing on front of people already there. If it is a child, I have no problem. But when it is an overgrown adult idiot, I mind a LOT.

I remember you telling me about the room door being open all day. I would have been livid too and that manager was not very nice, and something else should have been offered.

I could not believe all of the people that stood in front of us at the parade. And poor Bethany had to shoo away what seemed like 50 people. I don't mind when it is little ones either that want to stand in front of us but you're right, the overgrown adults just tick me off!

I don't know what I expected them to do about the room but dang, I was mad as heck!

 

[KatMark]

I love Spaceship Earth. Beautiful flowers. Don't feel bad...I forgot to take pictures of several of our snacks too. I think it was the ungodly humid weather this trip and the crowds.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Sophia, glad you enjoyed Olivia's breakfast. We did lunch when we were there and it was very good. I am staying there again in Janaury and we are going to do breakfast on the day we head home.

You'll have to tell me how you like it when you go. I read about your January trip on FB. Yay! We are going in February and will miss you guys by just a few days.